Monday, June 1, 2026

Movies I Have Seen - June 2026 (1 movie)

 

6 Movies


Project Hail Mary. 2026, Starring 


Eunice Huthart (the film's stunt coordinator), Damien de Froberville (co-president of Sony Pictures Animation), Ray Porter (the audiobook narrator), and Meryl Streep provided the rejected alternate voices for Rocky.


Scotiabank Chinook Cinema, 2 June 2026. Soundtrack: "



W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause. PBS, Starring Common, Courtney B. Vance, and Jeffrey Wright, with narration by Viola Davis.  1 June 2026, with Dr. Connie Luther. 


Sisu: Road to Revenge (Finnish: Sisu 2; stylized as SI2U). 2025 (Finnish), Starring 

  

The cast also includes Tommi Korpela as the leader of the Finnish men who help Aatami rebuild his home, Kaspar Velberg as a Russian fighter pilot, and Pääru Oja as a militsiya officer. Dog actor Simba portrays Ukko.


Crave, 4 June 2026. Soundtrack: Composers - Juri Seppa and Tuomas Wainola. Anachronisms: 

The film's villains include KGB officers, but the KGB had not yet been founded in 1946; it was not established until 1954.

The truck Aatami Korpi drives is a KraZ-214, a soviet-made military truck not manufactured until 1956. The movie takes place a decade earlier in 1946.

The motorcycles have disc brakes which were not introduced until 1969.


The Penguin Lessons. 2024, Starring 


  • Steve Coogan as Tom Michell
  • Vivian El Jaber as María Alvarez
  • Björn Gustafsson as Science Teacher Tapio
  • David Herrero as Diego Camelia
  • Jonathan Pryce as Headmaster Timothy Buckle
  • Liam Mayne as Alejandro
  • Alfonsina Carrocio as Sofía Alvarez
  • Micaela Breque as Carina
  • Aimar Miranda as Ernesto
  • Nicanor Fernandez as Igor
  • Hugo Fuertes as Ramiro
  • Joaquín Lopez as Víctor
  • Miguel Alejandro Serrano as Walter
  • Brendan McNamee as Cooper


Crave, 6 June 2026, with Dr. Connie Luther. Soundtrack: "



Anachronism: 

During the classroom lesson on Sea Fever, Tom quotes the "freedom" yell from Braveheart, a film that would not be released for another 19 years.


National Lampoon's Animal House. 1978, Starring 


Delta Tau Chi House

Omega Theta Pi House

  • James Daughton as Gregory Marmalard, the Omega chapter president, whom Wormer directs to sabotage Delta House
  • Mark Metcalf as Douglas C. Neidermeyer, a pompous and mean-spirited ROTC Cadet Commander
  • Kevin Bacon as Chip Diller, a freshman who is readily accepted into Omega

Pi House

  • Mary Louise Weller as Mandy Pepperidge, Marmalard's original girlfriend and Bluto's love interest
  • Martha Smith as Barbara Sue "Babs" Jansen, Mandy's fellow Pi house member who also likes Marmalard

Others

  • John Vernon as Dean Vernon Wormer, the authoritarian head of Faber College
  • Verna Bloom as Mrs. Marion Wormer, the dean's alcoholic wife
  • Donald Sutherland as Dave Jennings, a pot-smoking English professor
  • Cesare Danova as Carmine DePasto, the crooked mayor of the unnamed city where Faber is located, who has implicit ties to the local mafia
  • Sarah Holcomb as Clorette DePasto, the mayor's 13-year-old daughter
  • Lisa Baur as Shelly Dubinsky
  • DeWayne Jessie as Otis Day, the lead singer of Otis Day and the Knights


Hollywood Suite, 7 June 2026. Soundtrack: "



Trivia: 

John Belushi's performance in the cafeteria scene was entirely improvised. When he began piling food on his tray, director John Landis urged the camera operator to "stay with him." The infamous "I'm a zit" gag was also improvised, and the reaction from the cast is completely genuine.

During interviews conducted for the 30th anniversary of this film, Karen Allen revealed some interesting trivia about her nude scene. John Landis wanted her to bare her bottom in the film, and she was very reluctant to do so. Donald Sutherland stepped in and offered to bare his as well. Allen said, "I thought he was so sweet to do that, so I sort of let go of my objections and said, 'Okay, if Donald Sutherland is going to bare his bottom, by golly, I'll bare mine too!'"

Anachronisms: 

When going to the bar to see Otis Day, many of the African American patrons in the bar are wearing 1970's hairstyles/clothing with Afros/sideburns/polyester which wasn't in style in 1962.

When Katy is walking through the kitchen with her bare behind showing, she passes a refrigerator with a US Bicentennial sticker on the door. The Bicentennial was in 1976, of course, fourteen years later.

In the homecoming parade there is a float showing President Kennedy and the word "Camelot". The use of this word dates from an interview Jackie Kennedy gave Theodore H. White days after Kennedy's assassination in which she revealed that the President listened to the music from the Broadway musical "Camelot" before he went to sleep. The movie occurs before his death and uses a word not associated with the president at that time.

A major song that is featured in the movie is 'Louie, Louie'. The movie is supposed to take place in the Fall 1962 - Spring 1963 timeframe, however, 'Louie, Louie' (by the Kingsmen) was not released until late 1963 (November-December timeframe).

The car that Flounder borrowed from his brother is a 1964 Lincoln Sedan whose body style was not introduced in 1962.

When Stratton pulls into the motel parking lot, there is a pale yellow Plymouth Volare or Dodge Aspen station wagon parked in the lot. Chrysler didn't introduce the Aspen/Volare until 1975. Furthermore, when he opens the motel room door, a Ford Pinto/Mercury Bobcat station wagon can be seen behind him, which was not introduced until 1972.

Many of the hair styles/clothing throughout the film is of the present day (1970's) instead of the correct 1962 clothing/hair styles.

When the Lincoln is driving away from the Dexter Lake Club, the license plates are blue and gold California plates - similar to Otter's Vette plates that came out in 1970. -- Oregon plates from this era were very similar to the CA "Blue & Gold" plates. Since this movie was filmed in Oregon, possibly local cars were used.

In the check-out line at the Food King, there is an older, electro-mechanical cash register behind Clorette, but from a different angle looking towards Larry, a more modern electronic register as used in the late 1970s is clearly visible in the next aisle over.

When Larry and Kent are accepted to Delta House, they are awoken from bed with carbon dioxide extinguishers. The type used are aluminum cylinders which were not manufactured in 1962 and the label suggests they are Amerex extinguishers, Amerex was founded in 1971.

In the Food King scene where Flounder is catching groceries tossed by Otter, items on the shelf have UPC symbols, which were not used until 1973. Also, there is Low-Calorie Nestea on the shelf (not available in 1962), and the product prices are too high for 1962.

Throughout the film the Deltas are constantly seen constantly drinking generic cans of beer (which was common on American sitcoms) due to not wanting to pay licensing fees. Yet when the Deltas are at the African American bar, many beer signs are of the current (1978) style including Coors, Miller, Busch Bavarian, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

The "Philadelphia Collar" that Niedermeyer is wearing after he falls off the horse wasn't made until 1971.

Professor Jennings has a modern (late 70's) bush Afro perm that men didn't wear in 1962.

During the toga party, a guitarist with Otis Day and the Knights is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe model electric guitar. The Deluxe was not introduced by Gibson until 1968

When Otis Day and The Knights are performing at the Delta House, the guitar player is seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe guitar model, which Gibson didn't introduce until 1969 and blues guitarist Robert Cray, who played bass in the band, is seen playing a Fender Precision Bass with (if you look closely) a transition logo, which Fender didn't start using until 1964 and oval-head tuners, which Fender didn't start using on their basses until 1966.

When smoking pot with Professor Jennings, Boone and Katy are singing Hey Paula, which did not become a hit until 1963.

The movie takes place in 1962, but Astroturf was not invented until 1965.

Right before Flounder spills the marbles in the street, he is seen holding them in a Kenner Spectograph box. This toy was not sold in the US until 1966.

Many of the parade watchers wearing late 70's hairstyles, clothing

In spite of the director's attempt to hide them, there are numerous products throughout the movie that have bar codes. Set in 1962, the first bar code was not scanned until 1974, and were not even printed until the late 1960's when nobody knew what they were.

At one point Eric Stratton makes a phone call from a telephone booth. The booth has blue glass, but in reality telephone booths used red glass at the time.

At the "Toga Party," Otis Day sings "Shout" into a Shure SM58 microphone, which was not introduced until 1968.

In the fraternity's basement bar, on the wall in the background is a Coca-Cola sign with the slogan, "Things Go Better With Coke." Coca-Cola didn't introduce that advertising slogan until 1963, a full year after the movie's setting. This is according to Coke's own web site, on a page titled "A History of Coca-Cola Advertising Slogans."

The chainsaw the worker revs up in Dean Wormer's office is a McCulloch Mini Mac 6, which was not available until 1970.

To compound the previously cited geographical error of showing Pac 10 banners in the football stadium (the University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium), there is also an anachronism in this banner display. The Pac 10 was known as the Big 6 in 1962 when this story is supposed to take place. However, an OSU banner can clearly be seen: the University of Oregon and Oregon State University did not join the Big 6 (which then became the Pac 8) until 1964.

When Boon is in the phone booth trying to call Katy there's a coffin-nose AMC Matador parked to the left of the booth. AMC introduced that model Matador in 1974.

The Ludwig logos displayed on the marching band bass drum in the parade was not introduced until the 1970s. The logos used in the 1960s were much smaller, and used a script lettering (as used on Ringo Starr's trap set in the early Beatles films and recorded appearances).

The peace symbol on the wall at ------'s house did not begin to appear at American college campuses until the U.S. involvement in Vietnam began to escalate a couple of years after the setting of this film.

In the parade sequence near the end of the movie, there is a mid-'70s model Chevrolet pickup truck in the background.

The "road trip" Lincoln Continental belonging to Flounder's brother was actually a 1964 model, which is curious since the film was supposed to have taken place in 1962.

During the first scene in Dean Wormer's office, 1970s cars can be seen in the parking lot outside his window.

When Bluto hides behind the sorority house between some dumpsters, you can see a pressure sensitive ID label on one dumpster, a practice not used until the late 1970s.

Stratton's Vette have what appear to be blue California plates. California did not introduce blue plates till 1970. (Best view is when they enter the first party.) --Oregon plates from this era were very similar to the CA "Blue & Gold" plates. Since this movie was filmed in Oregon, possibly local cars were used.


Dumb Money. 2023, Starring 



Crave, 9 June 2026. Soundtrack: "



Anachronism: 

Gabe's laptop is an M1 Pro/Max 16-inch MacBook Pro which wasn't released until October 2021, ten months after the film is set.













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